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config/graphical-session: hint to font installation for compositors #810

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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions src/config/graphical-session/fonts.md
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# Fonts

A number of fonts and font collections are [available from
XBPS](../../xbps/index.md#finding-files-and-packages). `dejavu-fonts-ttf` or
`xorg-fonts` are a good baseline if you're unsure of what to pick.
`noto-fonts-ttf` contains fonts for many languages and scripts. `noto-fonts-cjk`
extends this with fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and
`noto-fonts-emoji` provides emojis. `nerd-fonts` provides a number of fonts with
special characters like custom icons included.

Fonts not available from XBPS can be manually installed to either
`/usr/share/fonts` (system-wide) or `~/.local/share/fonts` (per-user).

To customize font display in your graphical session, you can use configurations
provided in `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/`. To do so, create a symlink to
the relevant `.conf` file in `/etc/fonts/conf.d/`, then use
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions src/config/graphical-session/wayland.md
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Expand Up @@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ Void Linux currently packages the following Wayland compositors:
- labwc: a window-stacking compositor, inspired by Openbox
- Qtile: a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (via qtile-wayland)

Some compositors do not depend on any [fonts](./fonts.md), which can cause many
applications to not work. Install a font package to fix this.

### Video drivers

Both GNOME and KDE Plasma have EGLStreams backends for Wayland, which means they
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